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01-29-2015 12:07 AM

TRENT

Any updates on the L260?

06-22-2014 03:52 PM

Newman

update pics for the L260
This is them on 11/13/2013
And them on 6/22/2014

They are slowly growing and might hopefully breed within the next year.

01-30-2014 12:30 AM

Newman

New FTS and some pics of the lemon tetras and my angel.

01-28-2014 03:41 AM

Newman

New tank FTS will be posted soon!

01-28-2014 03:39 AM

Newman

Got 6 Lemon Tetras Today.
I hope they do great in my tank

12-23-2013 02:30 PM

Newman

update

12-15-2013 05:41 PM

Newman

update!
Here are all of my current fish.
The main fish and boss of the tank:

The random platy:

My plecos getting hounded by snails:

My fish that want proper schools (so they school with each-other):

I just recently lost the albino on the right due to bloat but these are plecos i raised from fry:

Random snail (looks to be assassin?) that i found one night in my tank:

I don't have any good tank photos but i'll post one when i get a decent one.

11-17-2013 03:05 AM

oscarsx

very nice, those vals are looking very good!

ps. Nice drawing

11-17-2013 03:04 AM

demonbreedr16

haha ... feel free to save and send me some of those blue ramhorns eventually! xD

Still, I know how that feels. My 40gB was INFESTED with Malaysian trumpet snails which are obviously insanely hard to kill ... they finally stopped being so numerous, tho. Hopefully they'll either die off or you'll find a way to get them under control. It's bound to happen eventually ... hopefully the L260s[ha! I got that right the first time without looking back!] will start really working for their food and not let those pesky snails get it.

11-16-2013 08:37 PM

FIUPanther305

Assassin snails? Or start a nano puffer tank!

11-16-2013 06:21 PM

Newman

crushing snails doesnt work. they plecos will likely pass on the crushed snails, and believe it or not they will live on after being crushed - they are just that hardy. (especially the bladder snails). then they will continue breeding so crushing only kills a very small amount of them and doesn't really stop the problem. I have to manually remove them.

I wanted yoyo loaches for a long time but they are fast and aggressive feeders. they will undoubtedly out-compete my L260 for food which are very timid and slow eaters. That is the reason i am not keeping a group of cories in here too. I LOVE cories but can't keep them because they too will out-eat all my L260.

11-16-2013 05:06 PM

kwheeler91

Put a couple yoyo loaches in there and that snail population won't last long. If those pleco eat meat at all you can crush the snails and they will eat the meat. Used to do that for my scarlet badis.

11-16-2013 04:38 PM

Newman

yeah $&%^&#$ those stupid F'ing snails. I hate them. every night i feed the catfish, they swarm the food so that the catfish barely get a bite out of the snail clump.

I have begun to siphon them out twice a week since i do water changes twice a week now. i use the food to lure them out then siphon out about 100 of them each time. helps control them a little.

Thanks! I hope the L260 get to breeding age some day. they grow very slow.

11-16-2013 06:25 AM

demonbreedr16

Dang! haha You've got a nice snail colony going on in there. I love how natural the tank looks and those fish! They're so epic! xD

11-13-2013 09:02 PM

Newman

cory is still doing well He is bigger now, and I am worried that my angel might eat him since he likes to hover in the water column since he grew bigger.

Also update photo of the L260s. I know i have at least 5 of them left, hopefully all 6 though.

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